and, on the whole, the volume may be read by young prac titioners, for whofe ufe it appears to have been defigned, with advantage. ART. 24. Remarks on Sea-Water, with Obfervations on its Application and Effects, internally and externally, as conducive to Health. By Charles Taylor, M. D. Secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of dris, &c. &c. 8vo. 78 pp. 2s. 6d. Phillips. 1805. Upon a fubject fo often difcuffed, little new will be expected. We have here a long catalogue of difeafes fuppofed to be benefitted by drinking fea water or bathing in it; and we are inclined to think that more efficacy is attributed to both than they really poffefs. But as many perfons who vifit the fea coafts may wish to bathe, or drink the water, without being fo ill as to require the afliftance of a phyfician, fuch perfons may fafely follow the directions contained in this little volume; which may be confidered rather as a collection of aphorifms relative to the fubject, than a treatife drawn out in medical form. ART. 25. An Inquiry into the Nature and Action of Cancer; with a View to the Establishment of a Regular Mode of Curing that Difeafe by Natural Separation. By Samuel Young, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. London. 12mo. 132 pp. 4s. 6d. Phillips. 1805. Notwithstanding our numerous difappointments, we take up with eagerness every work from a regular Surgeon, which hints at a cure for cancer. The perufal of the prefent effay was accordingly begun with confiderable expectations; and we pored with profound attention through a myfterious refutation of an opinion extracted from Dr. Baillie's Morbid Anatomy. We next ftrove, though we confefs in vain, to comprehend the author's theory. We will give the fummary in his own words. "Speaking more directly to the nature of cancer, it would appear to be an accumulation of difproportionate actions in previoufly deranged ftructures, originally, for the moft part, of complicated natures; and the continuation of the difeafe would feem to reft upon the want of an equal concurrence of powers to regenerate." P. 64. The obfcurity of this diction both prevents our affenting to the author's notions, and defies all refutation of them. We however perfevered, being determined to command our patience, in hopes of being rewarded by the difcovery of the regular mode of curing the difeafe, which is inentioned in the title page. At length we reached it, and we must own, that neither our furprife nor mortification were flight, on finding that the natu ral ral feparation! of a cancer was to be accomplished by the old plan of an arfenical cauftic. It thence appears, that there are furgeons who do not difcriminate between deftroying and curing cancers. Cauftics and knives. can only be had recourfe to, when a cure is defpaired of. The author indeed feems to have been aware that his work was not quite fatisfactory; for he writes in the preface, "It is poffible that even error may in fome way tend to aid the progress of inquiry;" if this be just, it is then poffible, that in fome way this effay may be useful. LAW. ART. 26. On the Refidence of the Clergy in England and holding of Farms. An Abstract of the 43d of George III. Cap. 84; swith Obfervations, Forms of Petitions for Licences and Notifica tions. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Vacher and Davis. 1806. This abftract must be of important ufe to the Clergy in general; and few, we prefume, will be fatisfied without poffeffing it. The author has performed the duty of fecretary to different bishops; and is at the prefent moment in that fituation with refpect to the Bishop of Norwich. The act itself has certainly not been generally understood; and this ignorance, as this writer (Mr. Wright) obferves, has expofed the refpective Diocefans to much unneceffary trouble, and involved many of the Clergy in much ferious inconvenience. The obfervations which accompany the tract will be found interefting; and the forms of notifications and petitions of no inconfiderable ufe. ART. 27. An Efay on the Nature of Larus; both Phyfical and Moral. By a Layman. 8vo. 30 pp. is. Walker. 1806. It is not easy to fay what is the particular drift and object of this author. Nothing, he fays, can fubfift without fome rule or law. This, in a general fenfe, is undoubtedly true, but we fcarcely perceive to what purpofe it is meant to be applied. The author immediately afterwards involves himself in a labyrinth of metaphyfics, and rings changes upon time and space, infinity and eternity, to prove, what is almoft univerfally acknowledged, the existence of a firft caufe. He then tells us there is fuch a thing as morality, that it will not apply to inanimate matter, that the proper fubject of morality is the mind or foul of man, that brute animals are not moral,--that virtue implies a good intention, &c. &c.-" Surely," (as Dr. Johnson obferves,) a man of no very comprehenfive fearch, may venture to fay that he has heard all this before."-The rest of the Effay is in the fame Ityle, alternately trite and pedantic. Yet the intention feems good, and those who are not difgufted with the style of this work, will fee no reafon to object to its tendency. DIVINITY. DIVINITY. ART. 28. A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, Nov. 24, 1805. In which is propofed a new Interpretation of the 87th Pfalm. By John Eveleigh, D. D. Provoft of Oriel College, and Prebendary of Rochefter. 8vo. 24 PP. Oxford. Rivingtons, London. 1806. IS. Cooke, It Various commentators have endeavoured to throw light upon the 87th Pfalm, but it ftill remains obfcure in most versions. has commonly been supposed that "He was born there," or "this man was born there," in ver. 4, alluded to the Meffiah; but, according to Dr. Eveleigh, no fuch allufion was intended. He fuppofes this Pfalm, like the 137th, to have been written after the Babylonish Captivity, and he renders the whole of it thus. "1. His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. "3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. 66 4. I will mention Egypt and Babylon to them that know + ME; be old the Philiftine, and the Tyrian, with the Cufhite; each one of these was born there. "5. Accordingly, of Zion it fhall be faid, That all these different men were born in her: and the Highest himself shall establish her. 6. The Lord fhall count, when he regifters the, nations, that each one of these was born there. 7. But, princes are as flain men: all my fprings are in thee." P. 21. By fprings the learned Provoft underftands, hopes. The greatest deviation appears in the laft verfe, "But princes are as flain men:" this, however, the author defends from the original Hebrew, by obfervations which appear found and good. Dr. Kennicott, in his "Remarks on Select Paffages," had rendered this, "Thus fhall the princes be as the fands of the fea." Dr. Eveleigh's rendering and interpretation of verfes 4 and 5, appear to us extremely happy. The whole is well deferving of the con fideration of Hebrew scholars. * "Or that of his temple. See Poole's Annotations." + "As a Jew or Ifraelite in general.” "That is, in Zion." Zion." That is, the moft illuftrious perfons connected with "As dead or unprofitable men." "In Zion, as the fan&tuary of God, &c. fee the preceding page." ART. ART. 29. A Great Work described and recommended, in a Sermon preached on Wednesday, May 15, 1805; at the Rev. Mr. Thorpe's Meeting-Houfe, in New Court, Carey-Strict, London ; before the Members of the Sunday-School Union. By Jubez Bunting. Published by Request. 8vo. 6d. 32 pp. Lomas, Butterworth, &c. 1805. "The Sunday School Union confifts of teachers, and others, actively engaged in Proteftant Sunday Schools. Their religious fentiments and connexions are various. Some are members of the Eftablished Church; others belong to the feveral denomi nations of evangelical diffenters and methodifts." P. 3. For this union of churchmen and diffenters we fee no neceffity whatever. The children of parents of each defcription, who want religious inftruction, are fo numerous, that they may without any inconvenience be feparately inftructed. Nor can we imagine how teachers exclufively evangelical (as they fancy themfelves) can be affociated with teachers of the Eftablished Church, who are fuppofed to be un-evangelical. The defign of this union appears to be, to promote diffent from the Church. Mr. Bunting's fermon, however, is unexceptionably pious, folid, and well. written. ART. 30. In a very fenfible difcourfe, this author applies, as others have done, the precepts of St. Paul delivered to Timothy, to the cafe of the clergy. He points out particularly that they are to be, as was enjoined to him, an example to the believers in word, or doctrine; in conversation, or manners; in charity; in spirit of Chriftian difpofition; in purity. On all' thefe points he afferts the doctrine of the Church, and repels the infidious fuggeftions of adverfaries. The difcourfe is found and pious; and muft have been very acceptable to the audience in which it was delivered. ART. 31. The Sword of the Lord. A Sermon preached on the General Faft, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1805, before the Volunteers of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, Middlefex, at St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row. By Richard Cecil, A. M. And published at the Requeft of the Congregation. 8vo. 32 pp. Is. Rivingtons, &c. 1805. This preacher, in a fermon before an armed affociation, which feems to have efcaped our notice, had proved the lawfulness and expediency of fuch an affociation. He now, therefore, takes thofe 3 points points for granted, and confiders war, or the Sword of the Lord, (which he ufes for it) as, 1. a fore judgment; 2. an appointed avenger; 3. a folemn monitor. Though we do not in every point accord in fentiments with Mr. Cecil, yet in the greater part we do: and though we do not feel authorized to felect any paffage of this fermon, as particularly and unexceptionably calculated to inftruct our reader, yet we cannot hesitate to commend the general fpirit of the discourse and particularly that foundnefs of mind which admits and commends the neceffary efforts of an injured and threatened nation to defend itfelf, with the bleffing of heaven, from deftruction. Thanksgiving Sermons. ART. 32. A Sermon, preached at the Churches of Flamstead and Kenfworth, in the County of Hertford, on Thursday, December 5, 1805: being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. By Thomas Alton Warren, B. D. Curate of thofe Parishes, Lecturer of Dunftable, and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. Published by Requeft. 8vo. 23 PP. IS. Morris, Dunftable. Rivingtons, London. 1805. An unquestionably well-defigned, but not an eloquent decla. mation. ART. 33. A Sermon, preached at the Parish Church of Chertsey, in Surrey, on the 5th of December, 1805: being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. By the Rev. John Stouard, Published at the Request of the Parishioners, for the Benefit of their Sunday Schools. 4to. 22 PP. IS. Wetton and Son, Chertsey. 1806. Another declamation, of the fame character. ART. 34. A Sermon, preached at St. John's Church, Blackburn, Lancashire, on Thursday, December 5, 1805: being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the glorious and important Victories, obtained by his Majefty's Arms over the United Fleets of France and Spain, on the 21ft of October, and 4th of November laft. By the Rev. T. Stevenfon, A. B. Incumbent Curate of the faid Church, and formerly of Chrift Church College, Cambridge. Published at the Request of the Congregation. 8vo. 18 pp. IS Banifter, &c. Blackburn: Rivingtons, London. 1805. Another declamatic, more vigorous than the preceding. ART. 35. A Sermon, preached in the Morning of the General Thanfgiving, December 5, 1805, at Laura Chapel, Bath. Ааа BRIT. CRIT, VOL. XXVII, JUne, 1806. By |